Monthly Archives: October 2006

Good game results since July

By Steve | Published: October 31, 2006
Since the beginning of July I’ve had good results in “slow” games, both in OTB tournament play and in turn-based play on GameKnot. In OTB play I’ve had 7 wins, a draw, and 2 losses during that period, and these results pushed my rating up about a hundred points to around USCF 1570. On GameKnot, I started [...]
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Study update

By Steve | Published: October 29, 2006
I just finished my third pass on the level 20 problems in CT-ART. In mid-summer I started working seriously on tactics problems again. Since then, I’ve done 425 problems in Susan Polgar’s Chess Tactics for Champions. In CT-ART I’ve done: 7 passes of the level 10 problems (7 * 110 = 770) 3 passes of the [...]
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The Immortal Game, by David Shenk

By Steve | Published: October 25, 2006
I just finished The Immortal Game by David Shenk. The book is an entertaining and informative read. It examines the origins and history of chess, as well as the game’s impact on human culture, thought, and technology. It begins by tracing the early spread of chess through the spread of the Muslim culture, including the sometimes [...]
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Add diagrams to your chess blog the easy way

By Steve | Published: October 22, 2006
I’ve always found the routine for adding a chess diagram to a blog posting to be pretty tedious. I generate the diagram using some chess software, save the diagram as an image, upload the image to some directory on my site, and then link to it. I wanted a way to include a diagram that did [...]
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Playing on the edge

By Steve | Published: October 22, 2006
Here’s a position from one of my recent games on GameKnot. The position of Black’s pieces is visually quite striking. Position after 14… Qe7-a3 Aside from his king, every Black piece sits on either the left or right edge of the board! Without looking very hard at tactics, I figured this was likely a winning position for [...]
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